Verdict
pixieradio.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Pixie Radio is an independent music curation site publishing playlists and song selections, with calls to subscribe to a newsletter. The content is editorial and informational; no login/payment or high-risk elements were found. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2006333 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2006.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Pixie Radio is an independent music-discovery and playlist publication website presenting curated song selections, themed channels, album and artist information, and an invitation to subscribe to a newsletter. Its apparent business model is editorial audience engagement rather than commerce, investment, or custodial financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity inconsistency or on-page brand impersonation was observed, and the site's visible content is consistent with a small editorial music service without login, payment, or other sensitive interaction features. However, external reputation checks recorded a confirmed blacklist hit, including two malicious and one suspicious detections. This is a material contradiction that outweighs the site's benign presentation. The domain has a long registration history and continuous historical presence, but those provenance indicators do not neutralize the current reputation signal. The real-world operator is not independently verified; legitimacy therefore remains unproven despite the site's apparently genuine editorial purpose.
- The homepage presents music playlists, named tracks, artist and album information, and newsletter promotion rather than financial or credential-collection functions.
- External reputation checks recorded 2 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, alongside a confirmed blacklist status.
- Domain registration: 2006-06-07 (~20.22 years old).
- Web archive: 333 snapshots spanning 2006-07-21 through 2026-07-29, covering 21 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears informational and does not claim to provide a regulated service, so a financial license would not ordinarily be expected from the visible business model. Nevertheless, the available content presents no licensing claim or license number and does not clearly establish a legal operating entity, leaving a transparency gap if the site is later used for subscriptions, donations, advertising, or other monetized activity. Links to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram provide some corroborative social presence, but they do not independently prove the operator's legal identity. The site's transport security is technically present, but certificate validation confirms domain control rather than organizational legitimacy.
- The homepage identifies the service through the “Pixie Radio” editorial brand but contains no stated license authority or license number.
- The homepage links to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as social-presence channels.
- Hosted on AS47583 (AS-HOSTINGER — Hostinger International Limited, CY).
- TLS certificate issued by YE2 (DV), valid to 2026-10-17T17:14:50+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any newsletter subscription, donation, commercial engagement, or other sensitive interaction, confirm that the service's independently reached social profiles consistently identify and link back to the same website. Confirm the destination, privacy terms, and unsubscribe process for any newsletter workflow, and obtain the operator's legal and contact details through an independent channel rather than relying solely on website-provided information. Given the external reputation contradiction, organizational security controls should block or isolate sensitive interactions until the website's status has been separately resolved.
- The homepage invites newsletter subscriptions but the captured page contains no sensitive form or login form.
- The site links to three mainstream social platforms that can be checked independently for consistent ownership signals.
- The available business-model description identifies editorial music publication and audience engagement, with no evidence of transactions, investment, or custodial services.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The website's editorial presentation and durable web presence are not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and the operator's identity remains unverified. Passive content viewing is materially different from treating the site as trusted for account, credential, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Hostinger infrastructure on AS47583, with the server location identified as Ukraine, and no CDN edge layer was detected; multiple likely origin addresses are exposed. This provides a clear hosting path but limited protective separation between the website and its origin infrastructure. The valid domain-validated TLS certificate supports encrypted transport only and should be treated as a mitigating technical control, not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise posture is to permit, at most, controlled passive access while withholding credentials, payments, donations, and other sensitive interactions until independent identity and reputation checks produce a satisfactory resolution.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of pixieradio.com.
- The request stayed on pixieradio.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under HOSTINGER operations, UAB. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2006-07-21. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | HOSTINGER operations, UAB |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:45:6f02:3fbc:925c:32a1:39e4 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-17 |
| Domain age | 20.22 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2006-07-21 |
| Archive snapshots | 333 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pixieradio.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.